For those folks asking, another drop of Genghis is on the way, which includes an HTML link class that handles links for you, a user-sizeable panel, a gradient progress bar, a completely revamped FileDocument and a host of fixes and enhancements, including stacking support and terminal server support for toast windows. However, before that can come, Mike Marshall, the Genghis build-master, stopped to email me about the impending arriving of his first child. Now *that’s* dedication! I doubt if I’d stop to email any of the folks in charge of the shared source projects I’m involved with on the way to the hospital… : )
It’s hard to dispute a savvy marketing/business guy who brackets paragraphs with “#ifdef do_as_I_say_not_as_I_do” and sites as potential platform problems that “The user’s dog is barking at your app” (the latter had me laughing out loud). Eric’s latest piece on getting starting with your own software company rocks (as usual : ).
BTW, I’ve seen the Eric’s next piece and a Gary Larson reference had me in stitches, so remember to come back next month!
Ryan Dawson turns his attention to Indigo, building a client and server and then adding security and reliability. In his writing, he also points out a number of pitfalls for you to avoid when getting starting with Indigo in the PDC bits.
Jeremy Mazner presents his second scenario for WinFS, this time describing his idea app for event management that would be cake to implement using WinFS. In fact, I’m pretty sure you could do the whole thing in the shell.
On a related note, I was watching an internal training video on WinFS yesterday and it excited me in a way that’s not appropriate for humans to feel about technology. The enumeration, update, serialization, relationship, extensibility and notification models just all seem so *right*. I’m looking forward to another drop of the bits that enables me to extend WinFS so I can really start building stuff.
